Bio

Joel Baum is a Professor of Strategic Management. He is Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review, sits on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal and is founding co-editor of Strategic Organization. Recent awards include Most Impactful Article, Journal of Business Venturing (2010) and Organization and Management Theory Distinguished Scholar, Academy of Management (2011). Joel teaches Communicating Strategy and the Capstone in the MBA program, and Research Methods in the PhD program. He studies patterns of competition and cooperation and their influence on firm and individual behavior, learning, and performance in diverse settings including biotechnology, investment banking, private military services, and Mozilla software development.

Academic Positions

2009-2018

George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

1999-2009

Canadian National Chair in Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

1997

Associate Professor of Organization Studies, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

1994-1996

Associate Professor of Management, Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto-Scarborough

1989-1994

Assistant/Associate Professor of Management, Department of Management and Organizational Behaviour, Stern School of Business, New York University

Non-Academic Positions

2017-

Member, Board of Directors, Rise Asset Development

Selected Publications - Papers

Mutual Forbearance and Competition among Security Analysts

Joel A.C. Baum, Anne H. Bowers and Partha Mohanram

Management Science

2016

Competitive Parity and Status Disparity as Boundary Conditions on Mutual Forbearance: The Case of Securities Analyst Competition for Investor Attention

Companion to Organizations

Multiunit-Multimarket Strategy

Economics meets Sociology in Strategic Management

Baum, Joel A.C. and Frank Dobbin (eds.)

Advances in Strategic Management (JAI Press)

2000

Featured Work

Game of Thrones

Joel has recently been posting short articles digging into various facets of the evolving web of connections— forged in both friendship and discord — among the series’ characters. The articles examine the global characteristics and features of the social network, key characters’ positions within the broader network, the influence of these network positions on their fates over Seasons 1-7 and the implications of their current positions for Season 8. You can read the articles here: https://medium.com/@joel.a.c.baum.

Research and Teaching Interests

Teaches MBA courses in Communicating Strategy and PhD courses in Strategic Organization and Research Methods. Joel is interested in patterns of competition and cooperation and their influence on firm and individual behavior, learning and performance.